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Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth
The closest you'll be able to get to "matching" the color on your monitor to what comes out of your printer will be by going through a process of calibrating your monitor, being sure the monitor and the software and the printer are all working in the same "color space", RGB, CMYK, CIE, LAB, or any of a bunch of other color descriptions, etc.
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Hi, michele is right. There needs to be a process of calibrating the monitor, and the printer as well. As far as i know, newer printers come with printer profiles - or icc profiles as commonly known - that enables you to efficiently calibrate to the monitor.
In this case, you'll find it's a priority then to calibrate your monitor first before you can calibrate your printer. Monitor calibrator softwares like Spyder and Gretag-Macbeth (GM) works well. In my case buying the low end GM software serves my purpose.
For me, the next step comes in deciding which icc profile to use. After reading a few digital photography books i've come to decide on using RGB profile, which is said to have the widest gamut and easy to use.
Too bad my printer doesn't come with profiles...
With the screen and printer aligned, next step is to print photos and adjust the brightness / contrast according to the output quality. But if you find that you still can't achieve the same / near similar quality printouts even after a few tries, then i reckon that's as far as your printer can take you.
But for your info, even the best printers will still be slightly off as compared to screen quality. I don't know if the rest of you agree with me on this or not...